Class collaboration
Class collaboration, or class collaborationism, is a bourgeois ideological endeavor which attempts to reconcile the class struggle between the owning and working class. Throughout history, class collaborationism has been a powerful weapon of the bourgeoisie. A substantial amount of class-collaborationism falls into nationalism, which claims to create "unity" of all the citizens of a nation,[a] regardless of class.
Marxist–Leninists must fight class collaborationism and fight for the proletarian struggle against the bourgeoisie. Class collaborationism is fundamentally anti-scientific and anti-materialist, as it does not understand that class decides the relation of people to material products needed to survive, and that the interests of the proletariat and bourgeoisie is fundamentally irreconcilable.
Examples of class collaborationists include Mao Zedong, Adolf Hitler, and Karl Kautsky.
Manifestations
Fascist
Fascists denies and attempts to obscure the presence and inherent nature of class struggle and exploitation between exploited and exploiting strata and introduces sentiments of class collaboration with the bourgeoisie. For instance, fascists have claimed that their state is "above" classes:
"[...] Fascism, is totalitarian, and the Fascist State — a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values — interprets, develops, and potentates the whole life of a people. No individuals or groups (political parties, cultural associations, economic unions, social classes) outside the State. Fascism is therefore opposed to Socialism to which unity within the State (which amalgamates classes into a single economic and ethical reality) is unknown, and which sees in history nothing but the class struggle." —Benito Mussolini[1]
In reality, this is to hide the position of the fascist state as a totalitarian dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and an extreme expression of monopoly capitalism.
See also
References
- ↑ Benito Mussolini (1932). "The Doctrine of Fascism".
Notes
- ↑ A nation is a stable community of people, with a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up, built up from years of living together, manifested in a national culture.